Energy Department to Spend $200 Million on New 'Aurora' Supercomputer

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The U.S. Department of Energy announced Thursday that it will give Argonne National Laboratory $200 million to make the Chicago-area home to a high-performance supercomputer that is five to seven times faster than current top supercomputers. "The Aurora supercomputer will advance low-carbon energy technologies and our fundamental understanding of the universe," Undersecretary for Science and Energy Lynn Orr said in a statement. Aurora will be available for scientific use in 2019 and use Intel Corp. system framework.